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From my experience it is not so hard to build completely terrestrial links that have latency that is large enough such that TCP works (althought it should not),
by dfox 9y ago
From my experience it is not so hard to build completely terrestrial links that have latency that is large enough such that TCP works (althought it should not), but TLS handshake will timeout. For GEO links you will get exactly this behavior by using BGAN terminal over Bluetooth DUN profile (BT adds enough latency for this to happen).
- jandrese 9y agoThe only time I've seen a terrestrial link with a latency so bad that TCP couldn't be established it also required you to install a poorly behaved app that reduced Window's TCP retransmit limit to 1 (from 3). TLS setups however as you note are a whole new ball of wax, especially if the link has a bit of loss to go along with the latency.